Leisure Style
April 06, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's famed architect, Geoffrey Bawa has inspired a new trend of boutique type hotels in Sri Lanka that are attracting …
Remote Diagnosis
April 06, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is setting up an internet kiosk network in agrarian areas to help farmers identify crop diseases and find quicker …
Sri Lanka senior minister targeted in suicide blast
April 06, 2008 (LBO) – A senior Sri Lanka minister has been killed in a Tamil Tiger suicide blast Sunday morning, north of Colombo, that has left at …
Sri Lanka minister killed in bomb attack
April 6, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's highways minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle was killed in a bomb attack outside Colombo on Sunday, a government official here …
Crisis, what crisis? say Swiss financiers amid UBS woes
GENEVA, April 6, 2008 (AFP) - Swiss ministers and financiers are striving to reassure markets and citizens there is no banking crisis even as the once-mighty …
Samaraweera century put Sri Lanka back in game
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, April 5, 2008 (AFP) - Thilan Samaraweera hit his sixth Test hundred and shared a century seventh-wicket stand with Chaminda Vaas to …
Sri Lanka suicide assassin may have been marathon runner
April 6, 2008 (AFP) - A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed Sri Lanka's highways minister as he opened a marathon Sunday in an attack that left 11 …
Special Licence
April 05, 2008 (LBO) – The Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka (MBSL), a unit of state-run Bank of Ceylon , said it plans to get a banking license and expand its …
Kenyans say jumbo coalition cabinet a colossal waste
NAIROBI, April 4, 2008 (AFP) - Kenyan papers and political watchdogs Friday criticised the size of a coalition cabinet announced a day earlier, saying 40 …
Tough road lies ahead for global climate deal
BANGKOK, April 5, 2008 (AFP) - There have been numerous disagreements during a week of intense climate change talks in Bangkok but there is one point all sides …
Japan’s major banks begin to show sub-prime losses
TOKYO, April 5, 2008 (AFP) - Combined net profit at Japan's six major banks is estimated to have dropped more than 40 percent for the year to March 2008, …
Mixed emotions for Sri Lanka captain after day two
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, April 5, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene had mixed feelings about the way his side performed on the second day of …
Battling Windies close in on Sri Lanka total
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, April 4, 2008 (AFP) - West Indies, replying to Sri Lanka's first innings total of 278, reached 268 for seven when bad light stopped …
Sri Lanka stocks weaken ahead of lengthy New Year holiday
April 04, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lanka stocks closed marginally lower Friday with unstable macro economic conditions and an approaching lengthy traditional New Year …
Tele Rating
April 04, 2008 (LBO) – Fitch Ratings has cut Sri Lanka Telecom's foreign currency credit rating by one notch to 'B+' after the country's sovereign rating …
Sri Lanka tea trade online transactions on the rise
April 04, 2008 (LBO) – The volume of transactions on Sri Lanka's automated tea export document processing system is on the rise but the number of …
Atom Chip
April 04, 2008 (LBO) –Intel has launched a new low-power chip which can be used in mobile devices and simple computers for internet surfing that it says …
Oxfam denounces rich countries’ broken aid promises
PARIS, April 4, 2008 (AFP) - British charity Oxfam released Friday figures on aid spending showing that rich countries had broken promises made to …
IMF chief sees ‘major’ slowdown in global economy
WASHINGTON, April 3, 2008 (AFP) - International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Thursday he sees a "major" slowdown in the global …
Merrill Lynch chief sees no need for more capital: report
TOKYO, April 4, 2008 (AFP) - New Merrill Lynch chief executive John Thain said he saw no need for the US investment bank to raise fresh capital, in an …